Icing-rack.



GEORGE COLLIS, OF CLINTON, IOWA.

ICING-RACK. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

Application filed June 9, 1913. Serial No. 772,644.

To all "whom it may con cern Be it known that I, Gnonsn CoLLIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clinton, in the county of Clinton and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Icing-Racks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This ployed in connection with coating or icing articles of food and the like.

In connection with the icing of cookies and the like, it is usual to employ a socalled rack for holding the cookies while being iced: This rack comprises an appropriate supporting medium, usually in the form of a bar, provided with a series of pairs of pointed wires and with means for supporting the rack. The cookies are pushed onto the points and, when the rack is full. the cookies-and rack are dipped into a suitable mixture for coating them, as with an icing sugar, chocolate, or the like. They are then hung on a suitable carrier which travels along for several hundred feet during which time the cookies dry.

In the construction of the rack, difliculty has been experienced in economically mounting the pointed article-holding wires on the rack-bar. It is desirable that these be arranged in proper spaced relation; that they shall extend at approximately right angles from the bar and to each side'th'ereof; and that they be of diametral' dimension considerablv less than that of the sunporting or rack-bar. It is also desirable that these pointed wires shall be welded to the supporting-bar, both from the standpoint of economy and, also. for purposes of securing a structure of stability. It has been found that in welding these pointed wires to the bar, the heat necessary to soften the metal has necessarily to be so great that it frequently results in the weakening of the wires. Moreover, a wire which is welded at right angles to a bar of larger diametral dimension is inherently weaker at its point of securement thereto. Hence, methods of attaching these wires to the bar have been devised whereby this difiiculty is overcome.

It has been with this obiect in view that I have devised the present invention: In one aspect, it includes a metal bar of relatively large diametral dimension to which are invention relates to devices em-' welded a series of article-holding wires of relativelv smaller diametral dimension; and also reinforcing-plates adapted to securely hold the wires to the bar, and also to mainta n them in proper spaced relation. These reinforcing-plates, acting in the nature of clamps, are suficientlv elongated to extendbeyond the portions of the wires which have been heated by the welding operation and,

thus, the wires have restored to them what in effect is their original I stiffness and strength. Moreover it is thereby afforded additional stabilityat its point of securement to the rack-bar.

With this obiect in view, the invention re sides in the described article of manufacture. the details ofwhich will appear hereinafter, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a view in per spective of the rack; Fig. 2 is a fragmen tary view, in section, and on an enlarged scale, 1llustrat1ng a section of the bar with a pair of wires attached thereto; Fig. 3 is bar or rod which, inthis instance, is shown as elongated and cylindrical. It may, however, be of any other appropriate form. Secured equidistantly on the bar 1 between its ends is a series of pointed pins or wires 2, 3. These are, preferably and as shown, arranged in pairs and are secured to the bar 1 intermediate of their ends; wherefore, as will be seen, they extend therefrom in opposite directions. These wires occupy a position at right angles to the bar and are mounted on opposite sides thereof, whereby they are spaced approximately the distance of the thickness of the bar. To efl'ect a more rigid securement of these wires to the bar, reinforcing plates 5 and 6 are attached in any suitable wav to the bar and to the wires, as bv soldering.

As already stated, one .of the features of my invention resides in the manner of securing the plates rigidly to the bar and to the wires: In this connection, I may explain that I prefer first to weld each pair of Wires (separately or together) to the bar. To do this, it is not necessary to subject the metals of the Wire and bar to a Very high degree of temperature, because reliance is not had solely upon the Welding of the wires to the bar. Were a high degree of temperature employed, it Would (because of the fact that the wires are of smaller diametral dimension than is the bar) tend to melt or soften the small Wires at the point of contact and thereby make them Weak. Hence, I resort to the use of strengthening media, preferably in the form of the aforementioned pair of plates Which encompass the bar and also each Wire of the pair. These plates are secured to the bar and also to the wires. From this it will be understood that the Wires are themselves individually Welded to the bar and the plates are attached thereto and also to the bars and, further, to each other: After the Welding of the Wires has been a completed, as aforementioned, the Whole structure is dipped in molten tin or the like which not only produces a smooth and clean surface but also efiects the furtherfunction of soldering all of the joints together. As the particular use of this form of structure is such as to require that it shall be re-tinned after it has been completed, it is obvious that, unless the wires have been properly securedto the harby electric Welding, it would not be possible to dip them into the molten tinning'metal Without producing disintegration of the parts. In View of its advantages, 1 elect and prefer to produce the Welding electrically.

I do not herein make "claim to the rack, per '86, but I do claim as of my invention a "structure in which the Wires are secured, as by Welding, to the bar and, further, plates secured to the bar, to the Wires, and to each Copies oi this patent may be obtained for other, as by soldering, whereby a structure of proper strength is produced.

fia'vmg thus described my invention, What I claim as nea and desire to secure by Letters-l?atent is:

A device for coating or icing articles oft food and the llke, including an elongated -supporting-instrumentality, a series of article-holding elements of relatively small dimension in cros's section arranged in closely juxtaposed pairs and mounted on said supporting-instrumentality, and reinforcing means for retaining said elements on the supp orting-instrumentality-.

An article-coatingor icing device, including an elongated supporting-member; a series oat pointed article-holding elements disposed in pairs and extending at right angles from opposite sides of "said supporting-member, and formed of relatively small diametral dimensions; juxtaposed plates attached to said member and to said articleholding elements for holding the latter in spaced relation.

3. An article-coating or 101119; device, in-

cluding an elongated supporting-member; a series of pointed article-holding elements dis 'os'e'd in airs and extendin at ri ht angles from opposite sides of said supporting-member; and a pair of hol'dingplates encompassing said supporting-member and five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner or lfateats,

Washingtomll G. 

